NCRB Data On Crime Against Women

Bengaluru witnessed highest number of acid attacks against women in the country in 2022, with the city police registering six cases, the latest report released by the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) said. According to the data, among the 19 metropolitan cities listed in the NCRB data, Bengaluru topped the overall list with eight women falling victims to acid attack last year. At the second position was Delhi which saw seven women falling prey to acid attacks in 2022 followed by Ahmedabad at third position with registration of five such cases, the data showed. An analysis of the NCRB data showed that the national capital (Delhi) reported 7 cases of attempted attacks followed by Bengaluru which registered 3 such cases last year. Meanwhile, meteropolitan cities like Hyderabad and Ahmedabad registered two such cases of attempted attacks in 2022. One of the prominent cases of acid attack which shook Bengaluru last year was that of a 24-year-old M.Com graduate who was attacked on Ap

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NCRB data shows India remains unsafe for women

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In 2021, Maharashtra topped the list of the most number of women missing at 56,498, followed by Madhya Pradesh (55,704), West Bengal (50,998), and Odisha (29,582)

POCSO cases also show few convictions, high pendency

Five states account for 61% of country's total such incidents in 2021

The National Crime Records Bureau has released data on crime in 2017, with a massive lag of more than a year. Crime rose from 3,793 per million in 2016 to 3,886 per million in 2017

Nearly 40 per cent (1,996) of the total number of rape cases in the 19 cities occurred in Delhi in 2016.